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About University Museum

The University Museum is a historic building that houses several museums belonging to Harvard University. The building is located at 24-28 Oxford Street and 11-25 Divinity Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It houses both the Harvard Museum of Natural History at 26 Oxford Street, and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at 11 Divinity Avenue, as well as several departments of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology and the Mineralogical & Geological Museum.

The building is a large U-shaped brick structure, six stories high, whose oldest portion dates to 1859. This section was built to house the Museum of Comparative Zoology; it was added onto in 1876 to provide space for the Peabody Museum, and was expanded several other times between then and 1913. The building is basically Italian Renaissance in its styling.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

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Photos of University Museum

  1. ColeopteraHMNH01ColeopteraHMNHAlcinoe · Public domain
  2. Harvard museum of natural history02Harvard museum of natural historychensiyuan · CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. Harvard museum of natural history03Harvard museum of natural historychensiyuan · CC BY-SA 4.0
  4. Goliath frog at Harvard Museum of Natural History04Goliath frog at Harvard Museum of Natural Historyistolethetv · CC BY 2.0
  5. Javan Chevrotain (Harvard University)05Javan Chevrotain (Harvard University)Daderot · Public domain
  6. Dimetrodon milleri (1)06Dimetrodon milleri (1)angela n. from Washington, DC · CC BY 2.0

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Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within a mile of University Museum; the closest, Harvard Mineralogical Museum, is practically next door.